Theater Backdrop for home screen (1080, 720, 4/3)

A lot of this in a folder using the multimage backdrop view in the home screen make a beautiful effect (Look at this Video). These images are easy to make using Gimp. Here you can find the 720, 1080 and 1024x768 image with trasparent screen ready to edit. Enjoy.

it might not be visible on screens with lower contrast ratio, but there's a big darker black bar on the left side of the image, here's the fixed 1080p version of the picture without black bar
Edit: the selection of the transparent part of the image is more accurate on the original picture, I don't know how to select it that accurately (i'm not very good with gimp...). if someone could fix the selection too, that would be great.

jpf55 Wrote:I love this idea and I understand the logic but did you actually get this to work or are they fake videos for demonstration ?

i don't produce fakes. everything's real. ;-)

jpf55 Wrote:If you actually did it, how?

by putting a multiimage control behind the backdrop and applying the animated background effects that are already in the skin.
it will get the fanart from xbmc's cache folder (userdata/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart)

jpf55 Wrote:I know I'm new to all this but I can't even get a PNG to show up as a backdrop, let alone showing fanart behind it...

i will have to clean up the code a bit and do some more testing. if i'm done i'll post it here.